Tiger Tim
Well-Known Member
Hey all, I'm no engineer but I have been scratching my head at something that's been implied a couple times on the forum lately. It first got my attention when the discussion was on those Zeniths that were failing and how the reason was supposed to be 'loose control rigging.' Tightening the cables has apparently fixed the problem and it's been mentioned since then elsewhere on the forum how that's one way to eliminate flutter. The thing is, I was under the impression that mass balances were the way to damp out flutter in control surfaces. Does that mean then that the Zodiacs essentially use the mass of every part of their aileron controls to damp flutter? Wouldn't that promote any slop in the system to get worse over time until some damaging amount of flutter returned?
Or am I way off on this?
Or am I way off on this?